World Cup Nonsense

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

...to England, getting through in fine style.

Attention over here now is very firmly focussed on the upcoming Australia -v- Croatia match. Whoever wins will qualify for the next round, although Oz only needs to draw to qualify, but quite rightly are concentrating on winning the game.

Much is also being made of the fact that three of the Croatians are actually Australians, and three of the Australians are Croatians! It all gets a bit confusing - suffice to say there is a large Croat population over here who have had no small part in getting Oz soccer to where it is today, um, which is in Germany. Yeah.

When I was a kid it was not unusual to go to the local soccer ground and not be able to understand any of the abuse being hurled at the ref, it of course being one of those very weird languages from some distant and little known part of Europe. I also remember my (much) older brother spending long hours at the Australian Croatian club with his soccer mates getting gut-rot pissed on cheap Croatian raki, which was (is) apparently far superior (despite its cheapness) to the crap Albanian raki they drank down the road at the Hellenic Club.

But I digress...

Um... forgotten what I was going to say.

Never mind